Fang Xiang

This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world.  Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice.  The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos –  human and nonhuman –  into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more.  Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.

The Card Apprentice

The screenplay for the second installment of Copper's "Legend of Master Shi" was finally finished, which meant that Chen Mu had to spend most of his time making the card play.

Although he basically didn't know how high the level of the perceptual training recorded on this mysterious card was, Chen Mu clearly felt that his perception had made tremendous progress those last few days.

Where did the card come from? This was constantly the biggest question on Chen Mu's mind. No one's name was on this mysterious perceptual training method, where the only thing written was simply 'A Method for Training Perception.'

The best thing which came from being able to improve his perception was that he could make more fantasy cards in a day. With his daily output now already doubled as the result of only one month of that perceptual training method, how could he not be overjoyed?

A Few Seconds Every Hour